Defeng Town is located in the southeast of Guizhou, adjacent to Hunan and Guangxi provinces (regions). It is the only place for Liping to contact Hunan and Guangxi, and the political, economic, cultural, transportation, information and commercial center of Liping County. As early as 1955, it began to take "Defeng" as the district name. By 1984, Defeng Commune and Chengguan Town merged into Defeng Town. The average altitude in China is 550m, the annual average temperature 15- 16℃, the annual rainfall 132 1 mm, and the frost-free period is 270-280 days. The town covers a total area of 3 10 square kilometers and governs 6 neighborhood committees in 17 administrative villages. In 2003, the total population was 4364 1, of which: the agricultural population was 22693, accounting for 51.99%; The population of ethnic minorities is 22,820, accounting for 52 .29% of the total population, mostly Dong people. The town's cultivated land 17462.23 mu, including paddy field 16650.97 mu. Mainly producing rice, rape, peanuts, corn, soybeans, tea and Chinese herbal medicines, it is a typical agricultural town in mountainous areas. In 2003, the town's GNP reached125.48 million yuan; The total grain output reached 85 10 tons, and the per capita grain output was 375 kg; Per capita net income of farmers 1588 yuan; The fiscal revenue is 5.556 million yuan. Party building, spiritual civilization, democracy and legal system have been further strengthened, and various undertakings have developed healthily and harmoniously.

Defeng Town has obvious location advantages and convenient transportation. There are long-distance buses that go directly to Wenzhou, Jingzhou, Huaihua, Shaoyang, Sanjiang, Guilin, Liuzhou and Dongguan, Guangdong. The transportation network centered on Defeng radiates all townships (towns) in Quanzhou and the county. Program-controlled telephone, mobile communication, Internet and other communication facilities are improving day by day. Natural and mineral resources are very rich. There are more than 700 kinds of trees such as pine, fir, camphor and ginkgo. There are hundreds of medicinal materials such as Eucommia ulmoides and Gastrodia elata. Placer gold, limestone, silica and other minerals are very rich. There are "Liping Conference Site" and "Lianghu Guild Hall" in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, complete ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, ancient city gates and other cultural relics. Nanquan Mountain in the south of the city is lush green trees, towering ancient trees, pavilions and temples, and the scenery is charming. The Shishan River rafting scenic spot in Xiyuan Mountain Villa in the suburbs is even more beautiful, which makes people linger. These scenic spots have gradually developed into the bright pearl of tourism in eastern Guizhou.

Convenient transportation, rich resources, a long-standing historical city, rich ethnic customs, strange mountains and rivers, natural scenery and advanced communication facilities make this simple and beautiful land of Defeng more charming. A large number of foreign tourists and businessmen come to visit, invest and develop. In recent years, a large number of township enterprises, joint ventures and sole proprietorships, such as Quanshan Winery, Xinhua Building Materials Industry Co., Ltd., Ferroalloy Factory, Dongguan Red Brick Factory, Compound Fertilizer Factory, Tea Production and Processing Factory, Tai Sen Food Processing Factory and Building Materials Prefabrication Factory, have been established successively, which have achieved good social and economic benefits and laid a solid foundation for promoting the economic development of towns.